15845 | It seems absurd that seeing a person's limbs, the one is many, and yet the many are one [Plato] |
13270 | Are a part and whole one or many? Either way, what is the cause? [Aristotle] |
13282 | Aristotle relativises the notion of wholeness to different measures [Aristotle, by Koslicki] |
10397 | Abelard's mereology involves privileged and natural divisions, and principal parts [Abelard, by King,P] |
10706 | Dedekind originally thought more in terms of mereology than of sets [Dedekind, by Potter] |
14121 | The part-whole relation is ultimate and indefinable [Russell] |
10657 | The counties of Utah, and the state, and its acres, are in no way different [Goodman] |
10806 | Megethology is the result of adding plural quantification to mereology [Lewis] |
10662 | Mereology is 'nihilistic' (just atoms) or 'universal' (no restrictions on what is 'whole') [Inwagen, by Varzi] |
13331 | Part and whole contribute asymmetrically to one another, so must differ [Fine,K] |
9928 | Mereology implies that acceptance of entities entails acceptance of conglomerates [Burgess/Rosen] |
15004 | 'Gunk' is an object in which proper parts all endlessly have further proper parts [Sider] |
15841 | Mereology began as a nominalist revolt against the commitments of set theory [Harte,V] |
8465 | Mereology has been exploited by some nominalists to achieve the effects of set theory [Orenstein] |
10648 | Mereology need not be nominalist, though it is often taken to be so [Varzi] |
10655 | Are there mereological atoms, and are all objects made of them? [Varzi] |
10659 | There is something of which everything is part, but no null-thing which is part of everything [Varzi] |
12815 | Classical mereology doesn't apply well to the objects around us [Simons] |
12819 | A 'part' has different meanings for individuals, classes, and masses [Simons] |
12832 | Complement: the rest of the Universe apart from some individual, written x-bar [Simons] |
12834 | Criticisms of mereology: parts? transitivity? sums? identity? four-dimensional? [Simons] |
10707 | Mereology elides the distinction between the cards in a pack and the suits [Potter] |
13258 | The 'aggregative' objections says mereology gets existence and location of objects wrong [Koslicki] |